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1/3 can pass U.S. citizenship test
Why did the colonists fight the British? Most Americans don’t know, according to a new survey. When was the U.S. Constitution ratified? Which countries did the U.S. fight in World War II? Asked...
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? What should every American know? Aspen’s Citizenship and American Identity program is asking. The video features four immigrants talking about America.
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From CNN: An immigration judge has granted asylum to a Connecticut high school student whose arrest sparked an outpouring of support from teachers and classmates… After ICE arrested Aguilar in...
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Trying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but in colleges, writes Adam Ellwanger on the Martin Center blog. What’s known...
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The Ukrainians are coming
California schools have begun to welcome Ukrainian refugee children, reports Carolyn Jones on EdSource. So far, it’s only a few students, but there are large Ukrainian communities in Sacramento, Los...
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‘Russian’ school gets a new name
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9. Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the “Russian School of Indiana” has changed its name in response to...
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‘Refugee High’ copes with Afghans
Omar, who had little schooling in rural Afghanistan, is learning English at Chicago’s Sullivan High School. Photo: Taylor Glascock/WBEZ My mother’s old high school in Chicago (class of ’44), Sullivan...
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Ukrainians, but not Afghans, get fast track to U.S.
Ukrainian refugees are getting a warmer welcome than Afghans, according to a group of refugee advocates and Democratic senators, writes Ilya Somin in Reason. Ukrainian refugees crossing into Poland....
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Summer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal and illegal — are crowding out U.S.-born teenagers in the labor...
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When tiger kids become parents
Credit: JooHee Yoon/New York Times The son of tiger parents, lawyer Ryan Park wants to raise his daughters to be “happy, confident, and kind,” he writes in the New York Times. They don’t have to be...
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